I finally finished the dive videos from our week long live-aboard on Spirit of Freedom. There are 2 videos. The first is a compilation of various clips from our 25 dives. It's 6.5 minutes long. (Higher resolution version available on Youtube at http://youtu.be/22TikhjZMIo )The second is a video of the Shark Feed dive. It is a little less than 3 minutes long. (Higher resolution version available on Youtube at http://youtu.be/7RJBwGdIZJc ) Hope you enjoy them. ...

We arrived in Brisbane on Tuesday the 18th, stop 6 in Australia, just as cyclone Marcia was building. While Brisbane is not right on the coast, it is close enough for the forecast to call for rain the first 5 days of our stay. Cyclone Marcia was a category 5 by the time it struck about 200 miles north of Brisbane. It did lots of damage up there but we only got the rain and some wind. We bravely booked a bicycle tour for day one and luckily it was mostly rain fr...

This will be a very short blog. We've spent the last 48 hours in a little town (population ~15,000) called Port Lincoln. The reason for coming here was to do some cage diving with Great White Sharks. Unfortunately our timing sucked. Up until 2 weeks ago when a pod of Killer Whales came through the area, Calypso Diving (our tour operator) had seen Great Whites on every trip since April 2014. The working theory is that the Killer Whales scared Jaws away temporaril...

I can't say I was sorry to leave Melbourne. Our apartment was beginning to feel as grungy as the town. It was nice to be in a car for the first time in 6 weeks (at least for the first couple of hours – by the time we hit Adelaide approximately 700 miles and 20 hours later we were ready to ditch the car). 2 hours out of Melbourne we hit the beginning of the Great Ocean Road and began our winding route along the Victorian coast for the next 200 kilometers (...

Before we left Sydney, we shipped half our luggage (dive gear) on to Brisbane in order to reduce our checked baggage fees for the next few stops of the trip. This also meant we could take the bus/train to the airport instead of a cab (I'm not sure Dessa agrees that this was a benefit) and then bus/tram in Melbourne. The apartment Dessa had booked near Melbourne University turned out to be in a great neighborhood and with easy access to down town via the tram syst...